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The Portland daily press., 1887-11-24
Crews Resignation.

1t is difficult for an American, whose ideas
Of the duties of the President of Republic
are derived from, the mastery provisions of
our own Constitution. to understand the I'M
happy plight in which President Jules Gre
Wy, of France, finds himself. An examina-
tion Of the differences between the Presi-
Dental offices in America and France will
explain this, and also make Americans more
than ever satisfied with their own form of
government. The President of the United
States is elected by an electoral college
which is made up of electors chosen by the
people of the States Of the United States, the
number Of each States electors, depending
upon its population. Our President there
fore, is responsible to the people of the sew
eral States Of the United States. His cabinet,
which corresponds somewhat to the minis
try OF France, though totally unlike it in
real power and influence, he selects
himself, and he may keep it so long
as he is in Office and chooses to do So We
have lately seen President Cleveland keep
ing in his cabinet an unfit Attorney General
against very general popular claror for re-
moval. So long as the President does not
render himself subject to impeachment by
violating the Constitution, he is independ-
ent of Congress, and even for limited time
of the people who have chosen him. The
position of the President of the French Re-
public Is very different He is elected not
by the whole people of France, nor by cleo
tors representing the majority of popular
votes in their several Departments, system
that would approach more nearly to the
American; but by the National Assembly,
or Congress, which consists of three hundred
senators and about five hundred and eighty
TOUR deputies, or members of the lower
branch, and which proceeds by joint bal
lot IN electlng President For his cleo
ton, therefore, the President Of France
is dependant upon the Assembly. The
trainers of our Constitution thought it would
be bad arrangement to have our President
The Portland daily press., 1887-11-24

Then thou sawest our Britain's heart and head
Deathstricken. Seemed not this my sire to thee
More great than thine or all men living? We
Stand shadows of the fathers we survive.
Earth bears no more nor sees such birth alive
Again the music is superb in the dialogue
of the Welsh king and the Lord Chamber
lain of king Locrine.
The Portland daily press., 1887-11-24

Nay, tell me not no smoke of lies can smother
The truth which lightens through thy lies. see
Whose trust 1t is that makes q liar OF thee,
And how thy falseh0od, man, has truth for mother.
What, is not thine the heart wherein my brother
Seals all his heart up? had he not put in me
Faith, but his secret has thy tongue for key,
And all his counsel opens to none other.
Thy tongue, thine eye thy smile, unlocks his trust
Who puts no trust in man.
The Portland daily press., 1887-11-24

Perhaps the most important case the Inter-
State Commerce commission has yet been
called upon to consider is the complaint of
George Rice against twelve Southern rail-
roads for discrimination in favor of the
Standard Oil Company. Rice is almost the
only competitor the Company has failed to
crush out. He has now managed to get
them before tribunal that has the power
to examine the methods by which they have
been able to extinguish opposition and
put an end to them If Illegal The railroads
are the nominal respondents but the real cul-
prit on trial is the Standard Oil Company.
There is very little doubt this company has
enjoyed privileges from the railroads in the
matter Of rates which nobody in the same line
of business could obtain, and that this fact is
the.secret Of its success in killing out all COM
petitors. The Interstate Commerce law is
very explicit on the subject of rates and for
bids in very plain terms the granting of low
er rates to one person or corporation than are
given to others, and if the Southern railroads
complained of are shown to have done this
the commission can be relied upon to put q
speedy stop to the practice,
The Portland daily press., 1887-11-24

At Its recent convention in Nashville, the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
adopted resolution that the principle I'M
derlying the internal revenue tax on liquor
is wrong and advocating ''the abolition of
the internal revenue on alcoholic liquors and
tobacco, for the reason that it operates to
render more difficult the securing and en-
forcement of prohibitory laws, and so post
pones the day Of national deliverance."
This is in line with the attitude Prohibition
lists have always maintained toward the tax
ing by the national government of whiskey
Their claim has been that the imposition of
such tax is, in effect, .Ia. recognition of the
legality of traffic which the Prohibitionists
believe to be immoral and which they are
striving to make illegal. They have always
regarded the taxation of whiskey 10y the
government as an obstacle to the accom-
plishment of their purpose.
The Portland daily press., 1887-11-24

It is said that the placing of guard over
Mr. Chamberlain was not his work but that
of the British prime minister, Lord Sails
bury Mr.. Chamberlain expresses the con-
viction that there is not the slightest danger
To his person, and that the surrounding him
with Pinkerton detectives is an entirely SUI
perfuous >PTecaution. What Chamberlain
really needed was a guard over his tongue,
but the necessity for this has largely passed
away since he arrived in this country where
as rule he has performed discreetly.
The Portland daily press., 1887-11-24

Sparks, the irascible whom the President
SO readily spared, does not appear to be sat
is6ed with the good things Mr.. Cleveland
said about him. BE has made up his mind
that ''vindicaton" by the people is needed,
and SO is going to try and and run for Con-
gress next year in.Richard w. Townshends
district on his record as land commissioner.
The Portland daily press., 1887-11-24
THURSDAY MORNING. NOV. "a

We do not read anonymous letters ana conliilu-
nlcations. The name and address OF the writer
are IN all cases indispensable, not necessarily tor
publication but as a guarantee Of good iaith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1887-11-24
= O nv uSn9a sMrrH secretary Of State.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA,
A RIO OIL AM TION.

The goodness and the mercy of God, which
have followed the American people during all the
days Of the past year. claim their grateful rec9g-
milton and humble Acknowledgement BY HIS
omnipotent power He has protected us from war
and pestilence and from every national calamity;
by His gracious favor the earth has yielded gen.
erous return to the labor of the husbandman, and
every path of honest toll has led to comfort and
conten.ment; by His loving kindness the hearts
of our people have been replenished with frater-
nal sentiment and patriotic endeavor, and by His
unerring guidance we have been directed in the
way of national prosperity.
To the end that we may, with one accord, test1-
fy our gratitude for all these blessings j, Grover
Cleveland, President OF the United States, do
hereby designate and set apart,
Thursday, tbe Twenty-foursh Day of Mo-
vember Next,
as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, to be OBJ
served by all the people of the land.
On that day let all secular work and employ
ment be suspended, and let our people assemble
in their accustomed places of worship and with
prayer and songs of praise give thanks to our
Heavenly Father for al that He has done for us,
while we humbly imDlOre the forgiveness OF our
sins and continuance of His mercy.
Let families ana kindred be reunited on that
day and let their hearts, filled with kindly cheer
and afectionate "reminiscences, be turned in thank
fulness to the Of all their pleasures and the
giver of all that makes the day glad and joyous.
And in the midst of our worship and our happ1-
unfortunate and by our gifts of charity and ready
benevolence, let us increase the number of those
who with grateful hearts, shall join in our thanks
giving.
In witness whereof, / have set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States to be here
unto affixed
- Done at the city of Washington this 26th
day Of October in the year of our Lord
L. s. one thousand eight hundred and eighty
seyen and of the independence OF the
1siepeds United states GR tes F12 afEvFnANp
By the President:
THOMAS +. BAYARD. Secretary of State
The Portland daily press., 1887-11-24

The Lehigh Valley Coal Company in spite
of its labor troubles has been able to declare
dividend The loss by the strike has been
saddled on to the consumers no doubt.
The Portland daily press., 1887-11-24
DAY.
STATE OF MAINE.
BY THE GOVERNOR.
A PRO Gil A M A TT o N.

Acknowledging with sincere gratitude the Sig
mai revelations OF the impartial goodness of Al
mighty God, the creator OF all and the giyer of
every present good, which have been vouchsafed
to us in the inestimable blessings He has be-
slowed upon us throughout the past year, and in
accordance with a venerated custom, and the
recommendation Of the President of the United
States, with the advice OF the Executive Council,
do hereby appoint
Thursday. November 24th, ISS5,
as day of public Thanksgiving and praise
For the continuance OF plenty; for prosperity
in all our material resources; for freedom from
the destroying pestilence; for the marked pro-
gress OF religion education and the great temper.
ance and other moral reforms; for the growing
strength of the principles of civil and religious
liberty established b. the Fathers; for all the
causes for individual gratitude, let all the people
of this State, abstaining from their usual secular
empl0yments and assembling in their places OF
public worship or around their family hearth
stones, offer heartfelt thanks to the Heavenly
Father
Remembering also that losses and sorrows are
the common lot of humanity let the people
cherish thoughts of tenderness and charity and
make glad the hearts OF the poor and suffering by
sympathy and generous gifts of material aid.
Given at the Council Chamber in Augusta this
eighth day of November, In the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty
seven, and of the independence Of the United
States of America, the one hundred and twelfth.
JOSEPH Il. BODWELL.
BY the Governor
ORAMANDAL SMITH, Secretary of State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-08

ARMY ORDERs.-MaJor George w. Mckee, Ord
nance Department, has been ordered to proceed
from Allegheny arsenal, Pittsburg, to New York
arsenal Governors Island, on public business
capt. VIM. II. Bixby, Corps OF Engineers, has been
ordered to proceed from Wilmington, NC, to Fort
Macon, NC, On public business First Lieut.. Ed
ward E. Dravo, 9th cavalry, has been granted
leaVe OF absence for four months The leave or
absence granted 1st Lieut.. Mason NJ. Maxon, 10Th
cavalry. has been extended one month.
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The New Cruiser Boston.

OFFICIAL REPORT OF HER SUCCESSFUL TRIAL TRIP
The official report OF the officers in charge OF the
new cruiser Boston upon her recent trial trip up
Long Island Sound has been received at the Navy
Department. The trial lasted six hours and re-
suited In the development. OF more horse
power than the thirty-hve hundred required by
the contract The furnaces consumed 35. .43
pounds OF coal per square foot OF CRATE surface
which Is believed to be the highest indicated
horsepower yet developed by q marine engine
continuously at sea in the United States The air
pressure In the hre-rooms averaged about an inch
OF water, and the temperature In the closed fire.
rooms was cooler than that OF an ordinary open
hre-rOom, which is supposed to be due to the large
volume OF air supplied by the rorce-blast. The
mean revolutions 6S35 per minute, and the mean
steam pressure SO pounds per square inch. The
engines worked smoothly, without lar, and per.
fectly cool, with the exception OF two main Jour-
nails, which warmed slightly. The afJer-tOw-Dres-
sure crank heated slightly, owing to the tele-
began. During the latter part OF the
trial higher number OF revolutions was
made, which was due to decrease OF friction
OF the moving posts The difference In the horse
power developed on the Boston and on the Atlanta
Is attributed solely to the better working or the
hre-ro0ms OF the former and the greater cOnsump-
tton or coal per square foot of crate as compared
Boston as compared with the Atlanta is attributed
to the fact that the vessel has docked for
one year and her bottom Is foul while the Atlanta
when on trial had clean hull fresh from the
dock. 1t Is believed that when the nremen are
thoroughly familiar with the Boston, 1000 1ndi-
draft. The ship was at her full displacement Of
1900 tons
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THEATER MANAGERS WARNED.
District Attorney WOrthiugtOn Locking
20 the safety Of the Public from Etre.

Mr. A. s. worthington. United States ATTORNEY
for the District has enclosed TO Messrs- J. W. Al
baugh, w. w. Raply. p. Herman, p. Harris. and r
j. Barton, OF the opera houses and theaten Of this
city, copies OF the report OF the grand jury june
13 last as TO the condition OF the structures nae1
In regard TO their safety In case OF nre and max
ing certain recommendations In that connection.
He says, 'That there may be no mistakes" he sA,
closes this copy, and "After lapse Of reasonanae
time In cases where the recommendattons OF the
grand jury to the theaters mentioned In their 10
port as not safe structures, shall not be carried
into effect Il will become my duty under the direc
ton OF the court 20 present the matter 70 another
grand jury and ask II 70 md indictments IN cases
In which 1t may agree with the grand jury which
made the report IN question As 70 the dangerous
character OF the buildings mentioned"
letter was also addressed 10 Mr.. Barton, In
which Mr. Worthington says: "You Will percetvo
that the grand jury considered the building In
question 20 be an unsafe structure-dangerous %
these who enter IL as audience or as actorA II,
Notwithstanding, this building should be Longer
used as Q theater or museum IN It's present con01.
tfon, It viii be my duty, under the direction q
the court, 70 lay the matter before another grand
Jury and TO ask for indictments against thoGe pse
sons who are responsible In any way for such 49,
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Representative Kelley Talks Politics
HB SEEMS 10 FAVOR DARK HORSE FOR No1INA
TION FOR PRESIDENT

Representative Kelley Talks Politics.
He SEEMS 10 FAVOR A DARK horse FOR NoNINA-
TON FOR PRESIDENT.
Congressman Kelley, OF Philadelphia, who is In
New York city to have his book on the South pub
nshed, gave his opinion about politics and Presi-
Dental candidates to the Philadelphia Press cor
respondent. who reports him as saying: .sThis Is
supposed to be democratic civ1l-servtce Admin
istration but can tell you that the plowshare OF
Investigation viii turn up the solid truth chat
Andrew Jackson never made more Changes In
ONCE. Yet everything is done solemnly la the
name OF civilserv1ce reform. Presidential candi-
dates7 Well, ! am for the nominee Of the repubu.
can party. We should remember some histori-
cal facts and be guided accordingly. when
POLK was nominated the country editors busied
themselves running around trying to 1nd
out who he was They asked who In
the blank Is Polk7 Well, Polk was elected. An
obscure lawyer by the name Of Lincoln was se-
lected, and he gained great victory. I think we
snould Try these experiments again. Why not 20
70 Iowa and take Senator Allis0n3 He would make
strong candidate. Then there Is Robt. Lincoln.
son OF the beloved President. His record as Secre-
tary OF War has been unexceptionally good. The
soldiers love him and he would carry The vote OF
the republican party. think we should remem.
Der the past and be guided by It In 1853 II MI.
Blaine Is nominated though shall support him.
Many great men. statesmen leaders, such as Doug
las seward, and Others, have been ignored FOR
some man comparatively unknown"
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From Wall Street To-day

NEW YORK, Sept. g. IL a. m.-The opening OF the
stock market was only fairly active JniS morning,
final figures, while Pacific Mail and wheeling and
Lake Erie were each down q. The early advantage
was not maintained, however, the market display
ing a sagging tendency from the opening, though
q few stocks made further slight iyancea, among
which Western Union and Richmond and West
Point were most conspicuous. These soon joined
the general list, and by 0:45, when the downward
movement was checked, the extreme declines from
best figures amounted 10 from u TO q per cent, the
latter In Northwestern. The market became quite
dull and recovered part OF the loss. western
Union, Reading and Richmond and West Point
were very active, followed by New England aud
st. Paul while the remainder were quiet to dull
At IL O'Clock the market is quiet and steady TO
rrm at shade under opening figures.
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A BOLD ROBBERY.
Thieves steal s. 1000 from a Farmer And
then Hire His RONNe.

CHICAGO. Sept. S-The Times Lewiston, Mimi,
special says yesterday afternoon a bold robbery
was committed in the town OF Elba- n. Decker, .
farmer, sold one or his farms some weeks ago,
receiving 81 600 for it, which he kept secreted IN
his residence, thinking the bank unsafe About
AGO. MIR. Decker being absent, Mrs. Decker went
TO a spring for water, some ten minutes walk from
the dwelling, leaving siX-months-old child In the
house. Upon returning, when In sight OF the
dwelling she discovered smoke issuing from the
secOnd-Story window, and entering found the
flames beyond control and the money gone from
Its hiding place. She barely escaped with the
child. The building and contents were all con-
sumed, with no insurance. Decker had been eau,
toned about keeping 80 much money In the house
There Is no clue TO the robbers.
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THE CAPTAIN Of THE FILGs
BUSTERS.
A Brief sketch Of the Man who Pre-.
poses 60 Help RevOImtsOnize Cu6a.

NEW ORLEANS, sept. S.-Capt- Berfben. leader q
the expedition which is said 10 have started from
here some days ago and 20 have landed near Caib-
arien. arrived In this city about six weeks ago In
an open boat with three companions He l. nne
specimen OF manhood, standing fully feet high
and tipping the scales at 34O pounds. He has
blush eyes and a frank countenance, and wears
side-whiskers. lie is thirty three years old and 10
scion or a wealthy republican family OF Blscay,
Spain. He has lived FOR nfteen years In cuba, and
has spent the greater portion OF the time In span.
ish prisons on account OF his liberal Ideas ana out
spoken manner. lie speaks several languages and
possesses peculiar magnetism which stamps hiin
as born leader. Before leaving here and during
the recent trouble between the volunteers and the
regular army IN Havana he planned 10 go 10 that
city, accompanied by a chosen few, and walk
boldly into the governor generals presence and
Kill or kldnap him, but the spanish authorities
got wind OF ais intention, and he oied In that
scaeme
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-08

Krafft. Goes a Co. aud the Illinois Wire
Fence Co. >uccuMb ne the Result -
the Recent Eailures in NeW Haven.

CHICAGO, sept S-A joliet, Ill, special says: The
announcement was made yesterday or the failure
OF krart. GosS Co. and the Illinois Wire Pence
CO. Both concerns were operated by the sans
pruprtetors4 The failure IL tracoaole to that Of
sherman Marsh. who owed the nrm OF n. g
Wheeler & Co. and the New Haven Wire Co s75, 900.
This was a severe blow 10 the trade, and especially
TO the latter firms, which were exchanging paper
with Kraft. Cos a Co. and the Illinois Wire Fence
CO. The latter nrm held considerable paper oi
the former when they failed, and their failure
naturally drew down the Joliet Concerns
judgments for s56,a3o In favor OF Al.
exander Goss, the principal hacker OF
both concerns. have been entered. Kraft, ooz
& Co Is an established nrm with a paid-up capital
OF Sloo COO and has always stood high In the oon-
mercial reports The Illinois Wire Fence Co. Is
younger concern and had a paid-up capital OF only
$1,000 Mr. Kraft, the manager, said last night
that the New haven failures threw $4,000 worth
OF notes upon the Joliet companies, which, In
Justice 10 the other creditors they could meet
All the members or Kraft Goss. Co. are sound
financially. although IL will wipe out their present
corporation IL Is said they ywi resume after settle
ment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-08

Mrs. Frank B. Conger with her children and
nurse sailed on Saturday by the North German
Lloyd line for Europe, intending to spend the next
year in Carlsbad.
Senator j. G. s. Blackburn and daughter have
apartments at the Ebbitt, where they win remain
for several days.
Mrs Frank T. Howe and her children nave re-
turned from Frederick, Md.
Mrs. X. NJ. Reynolds and her son. Mr. F. ]. Rev.
nolds, have returned to the city and are at their
residence on 10th street.
Miss Lizzie Macnichol the popular contralto re-
turn to New York yesterday to resume her studies
with Sig. Ayramonte, and also her position as
soioist 10 DI. Cnapins old church on Firth avenue
bid her good bye.
MIR. John johnson, Of the Registers ONCE, Treas
ury Department., and wife and daughter Anna
Theresa, have returned to their home, No. 1Ol5 I
street northwest, from two weeks trip to Allan
tic City.
dispatch received to-day from the physician
attending Gen. Albert Ordway states that the
general Is out OF danger.
Mis- Maggie Darneille, OF West Washington, has
returned from the White Sulphur.
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CHICAGO, Sept. S-A Times Special from Rush.
v1ile lnd says: Two destructive fires occurred
here yesterday, burning two dwellings, entire.
damaging others and destroying several barns and
the old wooen mills containing machinery 10 the
value OF about $4,000. There was no insurance
on anything The wind was blowing at a high
gale, and at one time IL was thought that the city
would be destroyed, but the flames were finally
subdued The fiTe started I'm a stable belonging 10
Win. Hayens, supposed To have been started by
tramps with a view 70 burglary, as several OF them
were arrested while robuing houses during the
progress OF the fire. The total loss Is estimated ae
from ST.. 600 TO SlO0OO0
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Telegrapllic Briefs.

The lord mayor of London ana the Paris Gduto(s
invite subscriptions for the relief OF the sufferers
by the burning OF the Theater Royal, at Exeter.
Jonn y. Saunders was struck by lightning g
Rawiey, Mass, last night, and instantly killed.
Tie u. s. s. Dolphin sailed from Newport, r. Z,
for New York this morning.
Sir Henry nchborne was married az Coventry
to-day TO Miss Mary Petre.
AT Cheboygan, Mich, the wind attained velo.
city OF 90 miles an hour yesterday. During the
gale the schooner Mary u. aver dragged on the
rocks at Hammond Bay. 4 tug viii be sent TO hee
assistance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-08

uudllIuOuSly d'tOpCeO.
President Davis then
introduced Prof. Martin.
OF Berlin, to preside, and
DR.. p. g. Unna, OF Ham,
burg, began his address,
The doctor Is rather q
short man, but has q
fine presence and good
address. He Is the edi-
tor Of u journal devoted
to dermatOiOgy, and is q
Well-knOwn practtcing
physician In Hamburg.
His address, on the "Re-
ldtiOnS OF dermatology to
general medicine" was
delivered In German, and
he had q fairy large au.